Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-04-23
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KANSAS STATE NEWS.

EmpOria has stereotype foundry.
Columbus nov claims 5000 inhabitants.
Kansas produced 1882 tons of Iesd last
year.
N Mt.
Not one-sizth of Kansas land has yet been
brought under cultivation.
The Garden City Herald Office employs 10
men mat IS a good showing for town Of
1000 people.
Caldwell reports the discovery Of a six
foot vein OF stone OF fine quality Just south
Of that place.
Cattle thieves cut E. Marshall q Co.'s
fence near Humboldt and stole tWenty-nine
head of S-year-o old steers.
Wichita will have eleven miles more of
water works mains and three miles Of horse
car lines, so the Eagle says.
Mcpherson water works bonds, to the
amount of $4,000 were voted by a large
majority at a special election.
The aggregate of farm products in Kansas
for last ear was $3.50. 90 to each man, v oman
and child within her DO ders.
It is said that a Wichit5. minister recently
took his Sunday morning text from lot /,
block 2, in Timothy's second addition.
It is said that in Kirwiu, Kas.. only three
women in the entire town could be found
who wouli sign petition asking for a
liquor permit.
Coolidge Citizen: Coal has been disoov-
cred in and around this city in several places
the past ten days, in couseQuce OF Wnlch real
estate Ia active.
The Santa Fe bridge at Granada. inst over
the Arkansas Riser, was burned recently.
The bridge was 1900 feet long, and was com
pletely destroyed.
Hutchison Nel0s: A company Of capita
lists of this city have formed a syndicate for
the purpose of investigating the oil discovery
north Of this city.
Burglars broke into Charley Wilson's
room at tue accidental hotel, Wichita, and
stole $500, gold watch and the young gen
tieman's pantaloons.
ago was estimated at little over 27O4 people
Now the town of Creensburg has nearly as
many within its limits.
The marshal of Oentralia disco -ereda man
stealing hides, and watching his chance
! peppered the thief with bird shot. The
/ thief ran, but was caught and penned.
While John Martin and Otis Gregory, two
/ Lyon county boys, were duck hunting near
EmpoFia, Martin was accidentally shot by
/ his COMPANION in the wrist and hand. The
/ wound Is serious.
Kiowa County Signal: A stock company
was found last week, to be known as the
/ Gresnsburg water, gas and oil Company,
/ for the purpose of Sinking an aFtesian we'll
northwest of town.
! An old Kansas weather prophet SAYS that
/ he has watched the seasons since 1854 and
/ has noticed that dry March is invariably
| followed by a vet spring and summer. Let
/ US hope he Is right.
| a destructive prairie fire, six miles north
| west of Newton, resiRtid al efforts of the
/ farmers to extinguish it until several barns
buildings, hay etc were consumed. The
FIR was accidentally started by some ohildr9n
IN barn.
The buildings on the ZiegIer ranch, in
Logan county, burned recently, the cause
| being a defective fiue. The same daV Mr..
! Hughes, in Thomas county, near Oakley,
lost a stable, team and harness from sparks
from his house.
FL Dorado Republican: We learn that the
the Peoria, Ill. Stone Company viii open
! chinery and saw dress the stone before
shipping and will of course employ large
number of hands.
Scott Sentiel: A farmer living southeast
of town, had an accident, while DR. wing
young team. The tongue OF the wagon fell
down, breaking the end of, which scared the
! horses and they started to run, resulting IN
one of them having the tongue run through
his leg.
Kansas PeoDle: The biggest prairie IRE
country for several years, ragged in Lincoln
county recently, and burned over a strip
one and half miles wide and thirteen miles
long, taking very nearly everything in its
path, Burning the sheds and fences on the
fair grounds at Lincoln Center. The man
who set the fire is now under arrest
The Kendall Boomer: Tells of the finding
of a Detri ed fish by some quarry men.
The fish was Embedded in solid limestone.
T. g specimen is so perfect that the ms and
scales in places retain their natural color
and gloss. The fossil is thirteen inches
long and weighs twenty-five ounces and
looks very mueh like a large Lnacksrels 1t
has been sent to the State Historical Society
where it will no doubt be pointed out as one
of the best fossils on exhibition. The rock
in which the fish was imbedded was split in
two in qIarrying and contains a perfect
mold of tine fOssilized fish. 1t viii alsO be
sent to the historical society.
Burlington Republican, Patriot: Flax
culture to a considerable extent Is COZ
templated by number Of farmers in the
eastern part Of the country.